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 Phyllites venosus, ITewb. 

 Bib : Trans. R.S.C., IV, 1886 : Lat. Ex. FL, 1868, 75. 



This species is confined to precisely the same localities as the last. 



Picea tranquillensis n. sp. 



In the 1906 collections from the Tranquille river there was a single leaf of a Picea 

 (fig. 1 7) which answers to the following description : — 



Leaf very slightly curved; slightly contracted at the base; apex obtuse ; 1.5 mm. broad, 

 15 mm. long ; one nerved or slightly channelled on the upper side. 



"Fig, 17. Picea tranquillensis n. sp. , 

 A single leaf from the Tranquille River, x 1/1. 



Picea columbiensis Penh. 



Bib : Trans. R.S.C., XIII, 1907, iv. 



This species, represented by leaves and cones, was obtained from the Kettle river in 

 1905. No further specimens have been found. 



Picea guilchenensis n. sp. 



A single leaf obtained from the Miocene of Quilchena in 1904, by Ells and Johnston, 

 may be only a form of P. tranquillensis, but its somewhat greater length would seem to 

 suggest another species. It answers to the following description : — 



A single leaf 27 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide at its greatest breadth ; narrowing gradually 

 to the base; apex acute; channelled, curved. Fig. 18. 



Fig. 18. Picea quilchenensis n. sp. 

 A single leaf from Quilchena. x 1/1. 



Pinus sp. 



Bib : Geol. Surv. Can., 1875-76, 259-260. 



In 1875 Sir "William Dawson observed in the collections from the Blackwater river 

 two Seed-like bodies which he regarded as probably representing two species of pine. In 

 the 1906 collections of Lambe similar bodies, together with scales and possibly larger 



